Over time,she employed and trained over 3,000 people,In1965,Rose was one of the founders of New York's only African American owned commercial bank,the Freedom National Bank.
Following the business example of her daddy,industrious former sharecropper Chaptle Morgan,Rose began making artificial flowers and convincing neighborhood children to sell them door-to-door at 10cent.Her skills with hair flowered into a business by age 14.
After attending Morris School of beauty,Rose rented a booth in a neighborhood salon and began working full-time.In 1938,she styled the hair of singer/actress Ethel Waters and impressed her so much that Rose was invited to New York City as Ethel's Awed by the city's glamour,Rose moved there and within six months had established enough customers to open her own shop.Soon,she hired five stylists and signed a ten-year lease on a vacant,dilapidated mansion.By 1946,the Rose Meta House of Beauty had a staff of 29,including 20 hairstylists,three licensed masseurs,and a registered nurse.
Rose opposed notions of beauty,which hold that kinky hair is bad,believing there is beauty in everyone.She began marketing her own line of cosmetics and staging fashion shows.With her ever-increasing success,she bought a new building.In 1955,Rose Morgan's House of Beauty opened in a more stylish setting with a dressmaking department and a charm school in addition to the existing salon facilities.In the early 1960s,she added a wig salon.Over time,she employed and trained over 3,000 people.
In 1965,Rose was one of the founders of New York's only African American-owned bank,the Freedom National Bank.She retired in the 1970s.Rose continues to exercise every day and care for health and beauty
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